Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations (FIACONA)
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FIACONA
FIACONA is a cultural, charitable and voluntary organization based in Washington DC representing the concerns and interests of over 1 million Indian American Christians across all 50 states
Vision
To work with the poor and oppressed, to promote human transformation, to seek justice and bear witness to the Good News of Christ.
Mission
Protecting the interest of the Christian church in the Union of India is our primary mission.
Speaker: Mr. Sunny Mathew
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Bengaluru Christians rally against anti-conversion bill proposed by the State government of Karnataka, ruled by Prime Minister Modi's Hindu nationalist party, the BJP in India. Follow us on Twitter @Fiacona_us Story via http://fiacona.org
It will do some good for India-watchers in the West to read this speech given by one of the senior lawyers in India, as a follow-up to @Fiacona_us last tweet. Tracing the decline of India’s secularism through the highs and lows of judicial ambivalence
Tracing the decline of India’s secularism through the highs and lows of judicial ambivalence
“The Constitutional guarantees of secularism and equal treatment of all religions have de facto been hollowed ou...
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A good speech on the 'idea of India'. It seems incredible that this enormous landmass, ... without a common language, ethos, culture, regional history, or and practice, should even exist as a single political or national unity.
Undermining the idea of India
Good evening. It is a privilege to be here, and today especially. I must thank Indira, Anand and their remarkable
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16 pastors arrested falsely accused of disturbing the peace as they met an officer pleading the case of another pastor who was also charged with “disturbing peace” after radical Hindu nationalists of Mr. Modi's party attacked his church. story at http://fiacona.org
News Updates
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Bengaluru Christians rally against anti-conversion bill
Bengaluru, Dec 4, 2021: The United Christian Forum of Karnataka on December 4 organized a peace rally in Karnataka capital of Bengaluru against a proposed anti-conversion bill and survey on Christian institutions in the southern Indian state. The rally was initiated
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Why India is witnessing spike in attacks on Christians, churches
Rights groups record more than 300 attacks on Christians and their religious places in the first nine months of this year. New Delhi/Roorkee, India – In late October, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi met and invited Pope Francis to India, the
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Karnataka’s Church ‘Surveys’: Anti-Conversion Bill Will Fuel Right-Wing Violence
ANALYSIS: December 1, 2021: As of 31 October 2021, Karnataka ranks fourth in the country for its targeted violence against Christians Once upon a time, say, up to the turn of the century, Bangalore city was known as the ‘Catholic Capital of
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Media’s failure to be watchdogs worries Catholic journalists
Mumbai, Dec 1, 2021: The Indian Catholic Press Association (ICPA) on December 1 expressed deep concern over the media’s failure to become the watchdog of governance in the country. Media, the fourth pillar of democracy has failed in its sacred duty
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Hindu activists intensify attacks on Indian Christian prayer meets
The repeated attacks hint at systematic targeting and official bias against the minority community Hindu activists in India are stepping up disruption of Sunday prayer services under the guise of exposing forced religious conversions. Two such incidents were reported on Nov. 28.
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Delhi: Church in Dwarka vandalised allegedly by Hindutva group members, one arrested
11/29/2021: The attack reportedly took place when the warehouse-turned-church was holding its first Sunday prayer. A warehouse-turned-church in Delhi’s Dwarka area was vandalised on Sunday allegedly by members of Hindutva group Bajrang Dal, reported the Millennium Post. The attack reportedly took
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The rise of ‘Godi Media’ in the U.S.!
(This article was originally published in the Indian Panorama) There is an urgent need for honest journalism to speak the truth to power in India and within the Diaspora. The primary function of journalism is to connect, inform and educate the public. Unless
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16 pastors falsely accused of disturbing peace after 40-strong Hindu mob storms church
Sixteen pastors have been falsely accused of disturbing the peace because they met with an official regarding the case of another pastor who had also been charged with “disturbing peace” after radical Hindu nationalists attacked his church. Police filed a case
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Hindu extremists storm Christian gathering in Jhabua, in the Central Indian State ruled by the Hindu nationalist party.
Violence against Christian gatherings are becoming routine in a Madhya Pradesh district. Hindutva-inspired militants held a rally calling for a ban on Christian meetings. “At the start of the Advent season, we are concerned for the Christian community in Jhabua,”
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Animist Villagers in India Force Christians to Exhume Body
11/24/2021: Tribal animists influenced by Hindu extremists in central India last month forced Christians to exhume the body of a 25-year-old man buried on relatives’ private land because they didn’t want a Christian interred in their village, sources said. Laxman Markam
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Churches under attack: Uttar Pradesh reports most cases of anti-Christian violence across India
Read the original full article in FRONTLINE INDIA here. The Following is excerpts from the original article published in FRONTLINE Magazine: According to data available with the United Christian Forum (UCF) helpline, 305 such incidents have been reported this year in India.
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Christophe Jaffrelot on the way Hindutva is changing history and science textbooks in schools
An excerpt from ‘Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy’ published on Scroll.in. To read this article in SCROLL.IN where it was originally published please click here. In March 2018, investigative reporters revealed the existence of a committee
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Indian bishops welcome PM Modi’s U-turn on farm laws
Catholic leaders have hailed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement to repeal three controversial farm laws that forced farmers to stage one of the country’s longest public protests in which close to 700 farmers died. “It is a really a very
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Fact-checking the Illegal Religious Conversion Claims of Extremists in India
11/17/2021 – On Sunday morning, October 10, Vijendra Prasad was playing the Dolluck, an Indian leather instrument, as he joined 70 other Christians in singing worship songs in India’s Uttar Pradesh state. The worship music suddenly stopped when a
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India’s Tribal Christians Under Pressure to Give up Faith
11/17/2021 - Hindu groups lead reconversion campaign but Christians are charged with proselytization in tribal pockets of Madhya Pradesh Indigenous Christians in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh say they are under increasing pressure to give up their faith due
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Remembering Fr. Swamy’s Sacrifice for Dalit Rights even as India’s Coal makes Front Page News
11/15/2021 - The Jesuit clergyman, who died in Mumbai after nine months in detention, wrote a scathing article against the Indian government’s policy of auctioning off 41 coal mines to private interests. India’s coal is front-page news in the wake
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Indian Police Implicate Priest in Conversion Case
Father Bartholomis Minj is approaching the high court to avoid arrest for Uttar Pradesh incident A Catholic priest who tried to help two nuns illegally detained in last month’s Mau incident reported from the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is
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Modi Government’s Child Protection Agency Terrifies Girls Staying in a Hostel Run by Nuns, While Looking for Evidence of ‘Conversions’
The child protection agency president inspected the Bishop Clemens Memorial Boarding hostel searching evidence of "conversions" by the nuns. Fr Joseph would like to see the same agency “take note of the safety and security of thousands of children living
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Hindu mobs storm Sunday prayer services in India. Rights activist says such incidents are a common occurrence to harass Christians
Hindu activists have disrupted Sunday prayer services in two Indian states alleging forced religious conversions that were denied by Christians. The first incident was reported on Nov. 7 from the southern state of Karnataka, where members of the Sri Ram Sene
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Door to Door Attack on Christian Community in a Village in Central Indian State of Chhattisgarh
Radicals Use Extreme Violence to Make Village “Christian-Free” 11/08/2021 – International Christian Concern (ICC) reports that a Christian community in India’s Chhattisgarh state was brutally attacked by a mob of radical Hindu nationalists over the weekend. The attack left nine Christians
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Hindu nationalist mobs belonging to Prime Minister Modi’s campaign attack a pastor and his family in the Northern Indian State of Uttar Pradesh.
11/08/2021- India. (FIACONA News Service) The Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations (FIACONA) has learned from witnesses that a group of 20 Hindu nationalists barged into Pastor Anjeet's house in the northern Indian state of Utter Pradesh on November 5th
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The threat to lives and properties of Christian communities in India from political movements, despite having all imaginable protections enshrined in the Constitution of India, remains a serious concern for the Federation.
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